One for My Baby

...until his death at 66, Judy Garland was the love of his life, historian Robert Kimball says. " 'That Old Black Magic' is about Judy, 'One for My Baby' is about Judy and 'I Remember You' was about his relationship with Judy," Mercer says.

In this article: Judy Garland, Savannah, Henry Mancini, Moon River, Georgia State University, and The Harvey Girls

...weeks. Yet by far the most striking aspect of Mercer's work is neither its volume not its success, but rather its consummate artistry. His "One For My Baby (And One More For the Road)" surely stands as one of the peaks of the great American...

In this article: Philip Furia, Tin Pan Alley, Midnight Sun, Harold Arlen, Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely, Too Marvelous for Words, Skylark, and Terry Teachout

...Dec. 26. Cabaretgoers can expect to hear Marcovicci's renditions of "Skylark," "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive," "That Old Black Magic," "One for My Baby," "Goody, Goody" and "Moon River." In a statement Marcovicci said, "Johnny Mercer's...

In this article: Andrea Marcovicci, Cole Porter, The Water Engine, Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive, Frank D. Gilroy, The Weinstein Company, Henry Jaglom, and Alec Wilder

...surrounding his Nov. 18 birthday. Mercer, who died in 1976, wrote lyrics for more than 1,700 songs, including such standards as One For My Baby and Moon River. This weekend's events include concerts and a free lecture by a Mercer...

In this article: Savannah, Moon River, USA Today, and Turner Classic Movies

...was a featured singer with Benny Goodman and co-founded Capitol Records. The hits he wrote include "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive," "One for My Baby (And One More for the Road)," "Come Rain or Come Shine" and dozens and dozens of others.

In this article: Infidels and Papa Roach

...and Santa Fe" through "Moon River," radio has always been his real home base. So even though he died in 1976, the writer of songs like "One for My Baby," "Dream," "Laura," "Skylark," "That Old Black Magic," "Jeepers, Creepers!" and...

In this article: TCM, WLTW, Moon River, and On the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe

...lyrics had an easy, droll humor, like "Baby It's Cold Outside." Some were love songs. Others suggested deep pain and longing, like "One for My Baby." Rightly described in this special as the ultimate alcoholic torch song, "One for My Baby"...

In this article: TCM, Hoagy Carmichael, Dream, Baby It's Cold Outside, Moon River, Come Rain or Come Shine, Blues in the Night, and That Old Black Magic

...lyrics (for more than 170 composers), turning out such classics as "Hooray for Hollywood," "Jeepers Creepers," "That Old Black Magic," "One for My Baby" and his two haunting Oscar winners with Henry Mancini, "Moon River" and "The Days of...

In this article: Moon River, TCM, Oscar, Jeepers Creepers, Hooray for Hollywood, That Old Black Magic, Roman Polanski, and Henry Mancini

...USA TODAY Songwriter Johnny Mercer died in 1976, but his words live on in such enduring tunes as Skylark, Blues in the Night, One for My Baby, I'm Old Fashioned and Moon River. With the centennial of Mercer's birth coming up Nov. 18, that...

In this article: Clint Eastwood, Tony Bennett, Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive, USA Today, Ella Fitzgerald, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Oscars, TCM, and Moon River

...covered Dream , one of Mercer's most starry-eyed songs. "It's very sweet, and my grandfather loved it," Buble says. "Then you consider One for My Baby , which is about a very different place where we've all been. (Mercer) could write about the...

In this article: Michael Buble, Savannah, Ga, and Li'l Abner